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ORIGINAL: Montana32DDD

Global Warming = Democrat Totalitarianism
Environmentalism = Democrat Totalitarianism
High Taxes, High Regulation = Democrat Totalitarianism
Government programs that reward the unsuccessful paid for by the successful = Democrat Totalitarianism
National Single Payer Health Care = The Ultimate in left wing Democrat Totalitarianism coming soon
Population Control - Choosing who gets to breed (Conservatives need not apply) = Democrat Totalitarianism
Democrat Response to anyone who does not agree with them = Democrat Totalitarianism
787 Billion Dollar Stimulus program resultingi n 25 million unemployed = Democrat Totalitarianism
Public Education/Labor Unions = Democrat Totalitarianism (Or do you support a tax funded army of Conservative supporters in all fifty states courtesy of Uncle Sam?  No?  Hypocrisy thy name IS Democrat.)
New York City - Highest Taxes, Highest Regulations, Rated most Authoritarian City in the World. - BBC
Frankly, from where I sit, I am surprised we still have democrats, let along anyone who is silly enough to defend their failed and flawed policies.  

To easy.

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ORIGINAL: LinnaeaBorealis

I really don't see this as a partisan issue either. And it could be a great topic of conversation. But some are so entrenched in their partisan beliefs that they think that everything in life is either due to the conservatives or the liberals, the democrats or the republicans.

I agree that there is too much information in too many places for this to happen in this day & age. And I have some issues with the facial recognition software, the GPS in the cellphones that show where I am at any given moment of any given day, the coding on credit cards that do the same, the grocery discount cards that track what I spend my money on, & most of all, the medical records being computerized. When I hear that Kaiser commercial where they tell me this is an improvement, I just shudder!! And if the store insists that I have to give them information to get a discount card, I always falsify it on general principal.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59
There`s a central totalitarian authority controlling the world`s scientific community.......making them say..... the world`s climate is changing.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

LOL.  I always lose those little grocery store cards, Linnea and end up keying in the phone number for the discount.  Of course, it's the phone number where I lived 6 years ago, and the account was never in my name anyway.

The tracking technology we have today, along with the video capture and analysis capabilities make the complete surveillance aspect of the book all too available.  You'd still need watchers, and watchers for the watchers, but all you'd need was a political climate where it could be ramped up to a full scale use.  Carrying cell phones around all the time would be very helpful of us.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Oh, I dunno, Lucy.  If you get into the details of what the radical enviroloonies would have us do to "save the planet," there is a whole lot of totalitarian babble going on, with a nice example being the pronouncement that "the debate is over."
Lots of babble going on, is not the same as totalitarianism. only in paranoiacs minds
Im an environmentalist, I dont believe everything of the "info or babble or beliefs" its far from being even partialism, be honest. The same way could be said of womens rights, being taken away by religious righties, Im more concerned about that than being FORCED to recycle.

Whoever "baa-aaad" is another book, though.  The question isn't which side might grab the reins, but whether we are coming to place where having such reins is a realistic possibility. The more people there are, the more rules will be applied... doesnt matter where you are.
with such a huge population, someone is going to have to have reins, that that escapes many on the right is beyond puzzling
Individual storage, on personal computers, was mentioned, but when you connect to the internet, the internet also connects to you, right? 
All my customer accounts, personal stuff, are on a non connected computer. it never is connected to the interwebs.
Ive been hacked, had the website hacked and probably spied upon, its part of the game, if you have to learn the hard way, you either never touch the computer again or you take steps to lessen your risks.
Im out and proud, my family friends and down to my younger family members know that aunty/cousin Lucy is eccentric and my business is adult. Because of immigration, security in the UK US and Canada are aware of my proclivities, and I dont need to explain myself, to anyone. Im lucky but I still dont trust to luck

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

LOL.  I always lose those little grocery store cards, Linnea and end up keying in the phone number for the discount.  Of course, it's the phone number where I lived 6 years ago, and the account was never in my name anyway.

The tracking technology we have today, along with the video capture and analysis capabilities make the complete surveillance aspect of the book all too available.  You'd still need watchers, and watchers for the watchers, but all you'd need was a political climate where it could be ramped up to a full scale use.  Carrying cell phones around all the time would be very helpful of us.

I don`t recall you posting outrage when Rupert Murdock spied on crime victims for juicy tips?


Is your outrage conditional?

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Playing with the potential results from the search engines is one those creepy little things, Sanity. 

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

You might argue that private sector clients paying to skew results is not as bad as the government doing the same thing, but either way, the results are for sale.

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ORIGINAL: Montana32DDD

Global Warming = Democrat Totalitarianism
Environmentalism = Democrat Totalitarianism
High Taxes, High Regulation = Democrat Totalitarianism
Government programs that reward the unsuccessful paid for by the successful = Democrat Totalitarianism
National Single Payer Health Care = The Ultimate in left wing Democrat Totalitarianism coming soon
Population Control - Choosing who gets to breed (Conservatives need not apply) = Democrat Totalitarianism
Democrat Response to anyone who does not agree with them = Democrat Totalitarianism
787 Billion Dollar Stimulus program resultingi n 25 million unemployed = Democrat Totalitarianism
Public Education/Labor Unions = Democrat Totalitarianism (Or do you support a tax funded army of Conservative supporters in all fifty states courtesy of Uncle Sam?  No?  Hypocrisy thy name IS Democrat.)
New York City - Highest Taxes, Highest Regulations, Rated most Authoritarian City in the World. - BBC
Frankly, from where I sit, I am surprised we still have democrats, let along anyone who is silly enough to defend their failed and flawed policies.  

To easy.